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 CONTENTS
CHOW’S REQUEST PART III DESIGNER.
THE DEATH OF DONNY Ben Counter
ZHAO 3
THE MUFFIN TOP CLUB 5 CARTOGRAPHY.
THE MUFFIN TOP CLUB MAP 6 Lewis Fraser
THE GUANG DU
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GUANG DU RESTAURANT Robert Marriner-Dodds, Ty Moore.
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CHOW’S REQUEST PART III
チャウ 要求
WELCOME!
This mission, suitable for 3rd-level characters,
follows on directly from the ‘Chow’s Request’
mission found in the Carbon 2185 Core Rule-
book.
Although it is not necessary for the players to
have played it. If they have not, the motiva-
tions listed at the beginning of that mission can
equally hold true for ‘The Death of Donny Zhao’.
After all, few cyberpunks need much of a reason
to accept a high-paying job from David Wong,
Dragon Head of the 16K Triads.
THE DEATH OF DONNY ZHAO
The Death of Donny Zhao begins with the
cyberpunks encountering the powerful and
influential David Wong, who makes them an
offer they can’t refuse.
Read the following text to start this adventure.
“David Wong is a distinguished, humorless
gentleman in his sixties, wearing an impec-
cable black suit and tie and sporting stylish
and simple augmentations. He emerges from
a sleek black limousine flanked by a pair of
similarly besuited enforcers. A small fleet of
black-clad bikers come to a halt around the
car, forming a well-armed cordon around their
leader.
‘My name is David Wong, and I am honored to
serve as the Dragon Head of the 16K Triad. I
have a proposition for such uniquely talented
individuals as yourselves. Please, step into my
vehicle. I think you will be most interested in
what I have to say.’
The interior of the limousine is as plush as a
high-end hotel suite, with a minibar and sev-
eral holo projectors, currently dark. There is
enough room for the whole crew, plus Wong
and his two bodyguards.
‘Donny Zhao serves as the Red Pole of the
Wan Chai Warriors. He has been engaged in a
rivalry with the Washington Street Boys and
their Red Pole, Jackie Chow. Normally -
I encourage competition, but both gangs are
under the aegis of the 16K Triads, and there
are rules they must follow. In attempting to
kill Jackie Chow, Donny Zhao has violated
those rules. If such infractions were to go
unpunished, we would have anarchy within my
organization. Therefore, I have decreed that
Donny Zhao must die.’
‘I will not sully my hands with the blood of my
own so I must employ outsiders for this task.
Nor can I offer you any help from the 16K
Triads. My hand must be perceived as invisible
as well as inevitable. Aside from this, and the
fact that Zhao’s death must be
confirmed, you have free rein to execute this
task as you see fit.’
‘The job pays 600 000₩. This payment
comes with the promise of future employment
within the 16K Triad and my personal endorse-
ment. These are boons that most in this city
would kill for.
I give you the opportunity to do exactly that.’
As well as the monetary rewards, each
cyberpunk involved in Zhao’s assassination gains
4 Street Influence.
The cyberpunks don’t have time to rest and must
act quickly to locate, then kill, Donny Zhao.
Wong will supply them each with a nanopack and
10 10mm bullets, but nothing else.
Wong, or any suitable contact, can inform them
that the Wan Chai run a go-go joint called the
Muffin Top Club as a front. A cyberpunk with
connections to the triads will be aware of this
fact, too.
This is the best place to start looking for Zhao.
The cyberpunks can also engage in a set piece
to find out the word on the street about Zhao
and the Wan Chai Warriors. After three failures,
they fail to uncover further information. After
four successes, they learn the following:
The Wan Chai Warriors also run the Guang Du
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 restaurant in District 3. It is a front with an illicit
casino on the lower floor. Donny Zhao has been
known to hang out there.
Zhao has a pair of lieutenants. Maggie Yu is the
smarter one and handles the gang’s finances.
She was injured in a shootout with the SFPD a
day or two ago and is
recuperating at the Muffin Top Club. Woozy Fu
is Zhao’s top enforcer.
Zhao isn’t content with being a Red Pole. He has
been open among the Wan Chai Warriors about
his
intention to one day have a ‘seat at the table’
with the triads’ leadership.
Word on the street is that David Wong isn’t
happy with Zhao’s conduct. Zhao knows this and
isn’t going to make himself easy to punish.
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SKILL CHECKS
INTIMIDATE (DC12). You shake down some
likely characters in a couple of dive bars. You find
some street rats from gangs affiliated with the
16K Triads, who tell you what they know.
PERSUASION (DC14).
You explain to the boss of a triad chop shop that
it would be better for everyone if the triad’s
rules were maintained. She can give you a few
tidbits about the word on the San Francisco
streets.
HACKING (DC 14).
You trawl some darknet forums for Wan Chai
Warriors activity. They’re not skilled at covering
their data tracks and you find a few undeleted
posts that have relevant information.
STREETWISE (DC 12).
You know the hangouts of the kind of people
who might know something useful. A couple of
minor bribes later and you have a better idea of
the situation on the streets.
DECEPTION (DC 12).
You talk your way through an SFPD switchboard
and get through to an officer on the gang intel-
ligence unit. You get some useful information on
the Wan Chai Warriors before he realizes you’re
not who you say you are.
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CHOW’S REQUEST PART III
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THE MUFFIN TOP CLUB
1. THE BAR
“The Muffin Top Club is an establishment in
District 4 with a neon sign depicting a top-
less dancing girl with two cupcakes over her
breasts.
Inside, the club is a dingy place with the gloom
broken by flickering pink neon. A stage runs
down the center of the room, ending in a
steel pole. Opposite the stage is the bar, with
a cybered-up Chinese bartender carefully
watching the comings and goings. Four other
customers are lounging in the seats by the
stage, talking and joking. A doorway behind
the bar leads to a set of stairs leading to a
basement level.
Bassy, throbbing music issues from speakers
beside the stage. A slender young man with
dyed silver hair emerges from between the
curtains, wearing nothing but a white thong.
The customers cheer as he begins to gyrate
around the pole.”
The four customers are Wan Chai Warrior gang-
sters and the bartender is a gang lieutenant
named Leung. The dancer, named Henry Yung
(stage name is Chastity), runs as soon as a fight
breaks out.
The Wan Chai Warriors watching Chastity’s
show are quick to notice the cyberpunks if they
approach the bar or the stage and recognise
them from the apartment block in Part I.
“One of the customers notices you and
proclaims ‘These are the pok gai that I saw
head into the apartment the other day!’ while
scrambling drunkenly for his pistol.”
XP.
Once Leung and the Wan Chai Warriors in the
club are dealt with, split 900XP between the
crew.
2. DOWNSTAIRS
Down the stairs is a basement room with a table
covered in blood-spattered plastic sheeting.
On the table lies a woman in her thirties wearing
a bloodstained business suit.
She has jet black hair with a white streak. She is
hooked up to an IV stand and a medical monitor.
This woman is Maggie Yu, one of Zhao’s under-
lings. She was shot during an SFPD shootout a
day and a half ago.
A backstreet doctor has performed a hack job
on her and though she is conscious, she is not
mobile and is incapable of defending herself. A
Medicine check (DC 10) identifies a severe pen-
etrative abdominal gunshot wound. Making her
well enough to move requires another Medicine
check (DC16) and proper medical equipment.
Maggie offers the cyberpunks whatever infor-
mation they ask for if they agree not to hurt her.
She tries to bargain her way up to getting medi-
cal help. Maggie is aware that Donny Zhao hangs
around the Guang Du restaurant, but that he is
unlikely to be there now since he knows David
Wong wants him dead.
Zhao is trying to leave the city, though he has
not entrusted Yu with how he intends to achieve
this. Maggie does know that Zhao used to say if
the 16K ever turned on him he would go to his
childhood home where he has a stash of emer-
gency money and weapons. Yu doesn’t know
where this ‘childhood home’ is, although she’s
sure it’s in the city.
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CHOW’S REQUEST PART III
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THE GUANG DU RESTAURANT
“An upmarket District 3 neighborhood is
home to the Guang Du restaurant.
The building has a sign with a fearsome
red-painted mask with a black beard.
The sound of plucked strings and flutes
emanates from the building. Inside, the plush
red and gold décor is lit by paper lanterns.
About a dozen diners are being served by the
attentive wait staff.”
The Guang Du is a Wan Chai Warriors front,
and has a casino downstairs, reached via a stair-
way in the kitchen. The head waiter, Chow Lam,
acts as gatekeeper to the casino floor. He is not
high up enough in the 16K to know that David
Wong is after Donny Zhao. He is ever-smiling
and polite and will allow the cyberpunks into the
casino floor if they come up with a convincing lie
and pass a Deception check (DC14) or mention
they are there on behalf of David Wong. If the
cyberpunks try to force their way in, Lam flees
downstairs and alerts the pit boss, Maxie Lo.
Getting around the back of the restaurant and
in through the kitchen requires a Stealth check
(DC14), with at least half the group passing the
test to access the casino covertly.
“Downstairs, the casino is a little less plush
than the restaurant but still upmarket in
appearance. It has a number of roulette and
card tables, and a barred window with a pretty
young woman in a red dress taking money
and issuing chips. The most private of private
rooms, presumably for gambling and triad
business, lead off from the casino floor.
Half a dozen gamblers, all older Chinese men,
are busy at the tables, watched over by a burly
triad gangster with tattooed hands in a black
suit. ”
The gangster is Maxie Lo, a gang lieutenant who
serves as the casino’s pit boss.
Maxie Lo is suspicious but polite, and like Chow
Lam does not know that Zhao is on the run
from David Wong. He asks if the cyberpunks
are members, and if they can provide the name
of someone who can vouch for them. Dropping
David Wong’s name will cause Maxie Lo to wel-
come them to the casino and give them access
to the private rooms if they wish.
Alternatively, the cyberpunks can talk their way
past Lo with a Deception (DC 12) or Persuasion
(DC12) check, or a bribe of at least 5 000₩. If
the cyberpunks blow these checks and refuse to
leave, or try to strong-arm Maxie, he takes out
a gun and threatens them. If they don’t run, he
starts shooting while the other gamblers flee.
XP.
If the cyberpunks deal with Maxie Lo, either
through combat or cunning, split 450XP be-
tween the crew. Once this is done, they can
move freely around the casino.
The cyberpunks can buy chips and play the
tables if they wish. With a successful Gambling
check (DC 16), they can double their number of
chips. If they fail, they lose half the chips they
bought. They can do this more than once, but if
they win three times, Maxie Lo becomes suspi-
cious and asks them to leave under the pretense
that there is a ‘technical problem with their ac-
count’. Refusing to do so likely starts a fight.
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 There are three private areas leading off from
the casino floor. The first is currently being used
by Takiyo Nikolaeva, a geisha in the employ of
the Aizutachi Yakuza.
Takiyo is a beautiful, if severe-looking,
woman in a fine silk kimono that conceals a gun
and phase sword. If a fight has broken out, she is
sheltering here, otherwise she is passing the time
sipping sake and playing card games. She knows
that David Wong is after Zhao and was hoping to
run into him at the Guang Du so she could offer
him the protection of the yakuza in return for
his defection from the triads.
Takiyo will let a cyberpunk into her
confidence with a DC14 Persuasion check, and
reveal that Zhao usually uses the ‘Plum Suite’
when at the Guang Du.
Takiyo Nikolaeva
medium human (regular joe)
Armor Class. 14 (Concealable Vest)
Hit Points. 51 (6d10+18)
Speed. 30 ft.
STR DEX CON INT TEC PEO
+1 +2 +3 +2 +0 +3
Damage Resistances. DR/2 Ballistic
Skills. Persuasion +5, Performance +5
Sense. Passive Perception 14
Languages. Japanese, Russian, Korean, and
English.
Challenge. 3 (700 XP)
ACTIONS
Multiattack. Takiyo makes two attacks with
her phase shift sword.
Phase Shift Sword. Melee Weapon Attack:
+3 to hit, 5ft reach, one target. Hit: 6 (1d8+1)
slashing damage.
Heavy Pistol. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to
hit, range 50/150 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (2d6)
ballistic damage.
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The second private room has a pair of elderly
16K Triad veterans, Chiang and Ding, playing
cards, unless violence has caused them to flee.
They are both retired from triad activity and
have the scars, tattoos, and stories to show for it.
They welcome newcomers to their game and
are happy to chat about the 16K Triad, though
they will not betray any current operations or
incriminate themselves in specific crimes.
They consider the triad an organization that
supports the Chinese community in San
Francisco and uses illicit means as a necessary
evil to acquire the funds for their altruism.
They see David Wong as a solid but
unimaginative leader. They are dismissive of the
street gangs such as the Wan Chai Warriors, and
know little of Donny Zhao, except his reputation
as a bullish young punk.
The third private room, the Plum Suite, has dark
purple and gold décor and is currently occupied
by four Wan Chai Warrior gangsters who are
unwelcoming to the cyberpunks and will attack
them if given even the slightest reason to.
This room has a card table with three
comfortable chairs and a well stocked drinks
cabinet The cabinet contains various types of
liquor and a lacquered black wooden box con-
taining three data chips.
They are labelled ‘Zhao Haven,’ ‘Beach,’ and
‘Forest’ in Cantonese.
The chips contain VR programs. ‘Beach’ and
‘Forest’ are unremarkable relaxation programs
putting the user in a quiet natural setting.
‘Zhao Haven’ is a custom recreation of Donny
Zhao’s childhood home.
These chips can be used to access the programs
in any VR café, or with the use of a personal
VR set (which costs about 10 000₩). The
programs are sight and sound only, rather than
full-immersion.
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ZHAO HAVEN
“The VR program kicks in, and you find
yourself in the living room of a handsome
house. The furnishings and décor suggest a
mixture of traditional Chinese and
ultramodern influences, with lacquered wood,
latticework and painted wall scrolls alongside
sleek electronics. The windows look out onto a
blank gray void, suggesting this VR simulation
is an uncompleted custom job.”
The simulation is a realistic rendering of the two-
story home, which has three spacious bedrooms,
a reception room, a living room, a bathroom and
a kitchen. It is clearly the home of a moderately
wealthy family; evidently a couple with two
children. The simulation only contains the house,
and it is not possible to exit through the doors or
windows.
With a Hacking check (DC10), a cyberpunk can
access the simulation’s architecture. They can
learn the functions of the simulation and see the
“About” file. The functions include the televi-
sion in the living room, a ‘memory echo’ function
that recreates surface memories scanned from
the user, several music, lightning, and other at-
mospheric settings, and the location of the safe
in the bedroom (but not the combination – that
requires a separate Hacking check). The About
file reads ‘Custom recreation of 1091 Hampshire
Street, San Francisco. VR
architecture by SlikkFingaz.’
Searching the living room with a successful
Perception check (DC 12) reveals the television
is a working function of the simulation. The
television plays video logs recorded by Donny
Zhao while in the simulation. While most of the
logs have been deleted, but one remains. The
video file is of the man talking in Cantonese to a
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virtual camera.
He is animated and self-absorbed as he
rambles. The impression is of a man trying to get
his thoughts straight by recording them.
“ ‘We were rich, once. I was supposed to be
someone. Some big corporate name. But then
father lost his money. They built the damned
overpass and we got turned out of the house.
When we didn’t have enough money to buy
food, we’d find a couple of credit chips in the
letterbox. When mother got sick, the triads
gave my brother a job. They looked after us
when he got shot.
‘Mother used to say how grateful we should
be. But I knew the truth. They were only giv-
ing us what we needed to survive, nothing
more. That way, they knew we’d always owe
them. They were training us. Like dogs.
‘The 16K think I am a dog conditioned to be
loyal. A Red Pole who knows his place. But
once I’ve taken over two or three gangs, Wong
will have to give me a seat at the table, or he’ll
have a war within his own organization. If he
wanted a loyal dog, he shouldn’t have taught
me to bite.’ ”
The kitchen is fully appointed but non-function-
al, as is the bathroom. The reception room has
a bookcase with a number of books that, when
interacted with, open text files. The books are
texts on corporate and megacorporate culture,
economics, and finance, and there are more than
a hundred of them.
The master bedroom contains a ‘memory echo’
of Zhao’s mother. She appears as a stuttering,
grainy image of an attractive middle-aged
Chinese woman with her hair bound up,
wearing a silk dressing gown. She stands
pensively by the bedroom window, and says the
following in Cantonese on repeat:
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showing a Chinese family of a man, woman, and

“ ‘I’m sorry, Donald, darling, but there’s two sons, evidently moderately wealthy and with
nothing we can do. Father’s deals didn’t come
off. It’s... it’s complicated. They’re building the a corporate air. In one of the photographs, posed
freeway and we have to move home. outside the house, a street sign indicates that
We won’t be able to live like we have been. We the house is on Hampshire Street, and the house
will all have to make sacrifices. But it will all be number is 1091.
all right.
You believe your mother, don’t you?’ ” In another, the older son is posing in a baseball
uniform with a bat. In the third, the younger son
An Insight check (DC 10) suggests that the is standing proudly next to Chow Xiang Lu at a
woman is not being truthful, and that she is public event, shaking hands with the beaming
sugar-coating the situation for the benefit of her corporate celebrity.
child. The image stutters, resets, and repeats the
statement over and over again. The real address of Zhao’s childhood home –
1091 Hampshire Street – is essential to finding
One of the single bedrooms has posters of Donny Zhao.
motorcycles, cars, and fighter planes on the
walls. On the window sill is a trophy in the shape If the cyberpunks fail to find this information,
of a baseball player, with the inscription the GM can have the cyberpunks find it
‘Corporate Family League Young Player of The automatically, or can have a glitch appear in the
Year: Reginald Zhao.’ simulation in the form of a flickering black tear
in virtual reality. Inside this glitch are lines of
The second single bedroom has less to suggest metadata that include the About file with the
the character of the occupant. It has a poster of house’s real address, which the cyberpunks can
a handsome, smiling corporate type. The poster read without a test.
is signed ‘To Donny, Become The Dragon! Chow
Xiang Lu.’ A History (DC 10) check lets a
cyberpunk recall that Lu was a senior executive
of Shenzhen Solutions, and was something of
a celebrity until he dropped out of sight eight
years ago in a typical megacorporate reshuffle.

Searching this bedroom reveals, with a

successful perception check (DC 10), a safe
hidden in the floor under the carpet beneath the
bed. This safe is a digital function of the
simulation and requires an input password to
open. The password is ‘Dragon’. After three
incorrect inputs, the locking program deletes
and the safe can only be opened with a Hacking
check (DC 12). Inside is a folder of image files

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1091 HAMPSHIRE STREET
“An overpass has turned this neighborhood
into a pit of shadow. Hollow, looted shells of
houses line what was once an affluent street.
Now they are all squats for dropouts, wesleys,
and crazies. 1091 hampshire street doesn’t
stand out from the rest. If you didn’t have the
address, it would be just another ruin.
Inside, the house has the same layout as the
VR simulation, though anything of value has
long since been looted and the décor is hidden
in a layer of grime and graffiti. The smell of
stale urine and unwashed bodies hits you.
‘You ain’t getting my stuff!’ yells a shrill voice
from the gloom. You see a filthy, haggard man
in rags staring at you through unkempt hair.
Other human shapes detach from the heaps
of trash in the house. ‘They want the stash!
You ain’t getting it! It’s ours! Ours!’
The squatters at you. One of them is feral,
loping on all fours, half-naked body distorted
by stimulant and steroid abuse.”
Four wesleys and one steroid-engorged madman
(using the gouger statblock) inhabit the house. If
the steroid beast is killed, the wesleys run shriek-
ing in fear. Otherwise they are too obsessed with
protecting their stash to do anything but fight.
XP.
After the squatters are defeated split 750XP
between the crew.
The lower floor is a filthy wreck choked with
trash. A Perception check (DC 12) turns up a
stash of six Crush doses and a half-bottle of Jim
Diamond in a burned-out oven. A success also
allows a character to notice the glint of a tiny
camera lens in the corner of the living room.
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Upstairs is the domain of a crazy conspiracy
theorist, Haywire Jane. This scruffy, wild-eyed
woman, with a shock of straw-like blonde hair
and thick glasses, spends her life bending over a
laptop in the master bedroom. She doesn’t care
much about the wesleys downstairs and takes
every opportunity to expound on her theories
about the secret powers running the world.
She believes that alien reptiles, descendants of
the Knights Templar, undead Atlantean sorcer-
ers, and omniscient AIs all secretly control the
megacorps.
Jane has no intention of fighting and flees at the
first sign of violence, leaving her laptop. She can
be convinced to give a cyberpunk access to the
laptop if they show any interest in hearing about
her theories. On the laptop, along with thou-
sands of text and audio files explaining Jane’s
theories, are the recordings from the video
camera downstairs. The recordings are all of the
wesleys entering, leaving, and sleeping, but one
shows someone else entering the house.
“A man in a shiny white tracksuit with blue
stripes picks his way carefully past the sleeping
wesleys. He looks nervously around, revealing
the face of a Chinese man with a scarred lip
and scalp. He pries a panel away from the wall
and removes a suitcase.
An electronic beeping causes the man to
scrabble in his pockets for a smartphone. He
hisses into it, in a whisper just picked up by the
camera’s mic. He speaks in English.
‘Can’t talk. I just... yes, fine. Top of Fortune
Heights, the helipad. I got the cash, just bring
the bird. Gotta go. Be there.’ ”
This piece of footage is just under two hours old.
A quick search of city information shows that
Fortune Heights is an apartment block in
District 4.
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FORTUNE HEIGHTS
“This apartment block is identical to the hun-
dreds of others in the 4 – a concrete stack of
cramped apartments reaching up towards the
grimy sky. It is twenty stories high with four
apartments per floor.
The thumping of engines cuts through the
air from above. A twin-rotor aircraft in black
and yellow livery slews around above Fortune
Height, and makes a landing approach.”
Fortune heights is 40 stories high. The locks on
the front door are broken and it has a working
elevator that can get the cyberpunks to the roof
in a couple of minutes.
“You recognize Donny Zhao, clutching a brief-
case to his chest with one hand while toting a
gun with the other.
A second triad gangster, this one with shaven
scalp and clothes of ripped leather covered in
chains, has a submachine gun in his hands and
a blade in a scabbard slung over his back. His
mouth is flecked with foam and his eyes are
bloodshot.
‘Woozy! Kill these idiots!’ yells Zhao. Woozy
Fu yells an incomprehensible war cry and
sprays bullets as Zhao runs for cover.”
Zhao, a gang lieutenant, is concerned with get-
ting to the aircraft and escaping. He takes cover
behind an air conditioning unit, which gives him
three-quarters cover. Two rounds into the com-
bat, the aircraft touches down and Zhao uses
his whole turn to sprint for the vehicle, getting
on board next turn. He doesn’t wait for Woozy
Fu, whom he considers expendable. Zhao shoots
at the cyberpunks from the aircraft for the two
turns it takes to fly away, but his attacks from
the aircraft have disadvantage. He has half cover
while inside the aircraft.
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Woozy Fu, a veteran triad member with the stats
of a surviving cyberpunk, is off his head on vari-
ous combat drugs and fights to the death or until
Zhao is killed, at which point he collapses into
a semi-conscious heap. He prefers to fight up
close, eschewing cover for hand-to-hand vio-
lence.
There is plenty of cover among the air condition
units and antennae on the roof, and the cyber-
punks can easily get half cover. The concrete
circle of the helipad, however, is exposed. If a
character falls over the edge, they can grab on
with an Acrobatics or Athletics check (DC 12).
Otherwise, they plummet 40 stories to their
inevitably messy demise.
The pilot of the aircraft, a street racer named
Voss, has half cover in his cockpit. If he can take
off with Zhao on board, he gets out of gun-
shot range in two rounds of flying. If he hits 0
hit points, he loses control of the helicopter. It
crashes into the side of Fortune Heights Tower
and sends shards of engine fan spinning every-
where. It impacts the street below with a roar of
tearing metal followed by a blossom of flame as
the fuel cells explode. If Zhao is on board, he is
killed in the crash. Otherwise, if Zhao loses his
ride, he tries to flee past the cyberpunks and
into the elevator.
The helicopter itself has an Armor Class of 15,
100 Hit Points and a Damage Threshold of 5.
LOOT.
Zhao’s briefcase contains a 50 000₩ credit
chip and a pair of heavy pistols.
XP.
If Zhao and Woozy Fu are defeated, split
1000XP between the crew.
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 CHOW’S REQUEST PART III
チャウ 要求

AFTERMATH
IF DONNY ZHAO IS KILLED
If Donny Zhao is killed, either in a hail of gunfire
or in the aircraft crash, his body can be
recovered by the 16K Triads and David Wong is
satisfied that the cyberpunks have performed
their task. He has one of his underlings deliver
a data chip with the promised 600 000₩, and
keeps them in mind for further work of this
nature.
IF DONNY ZHAO ESCAPES
If Zhao escapes, not only have the cyberpunks
not fulfilled the job they were hired for, but Zhao
has successfully flouted 16K Triad rules and lived.
David Wong can only save his reputation in the
face of such a disaster by eliminating the
offending failures.
The 16K take out a contract on the cyberpunks
to ensure they have failed the Dragon Head for
the last time.

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